From the IFL: IFL Launches 2010 Schedule

Posted on December 14, 2009

The Indoor Football League is proud to release the official 2010 game schedule. The below version does not include games to be played in the two Lonestar Division as final adjustments are being made to these divisions with plans to release their portion of the schedule over the coming days.

The league will compete with 26 teams participating in 2 conferences. The United and Intense conferences are split into 6 total divisions. Each team will once again play a fourteen game regular season with either three or four rounds of playoffs to follow. This playoff format will be determined and announced by the league over the coming weeks.

The Divisional alignment is as follows:

UNITED CONFERENCE

Atlantic East Division
Maryland
Richmond
Rochester
West Michigan

Central North Division
Bloomington
Chicago
Green Bay
La Crosse

Central West Division
Colorado
Omaha
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Wichita

INTENSE CONFERENCE

Pacific North Division
Alaska
Billings
Fairbanks
Kent
Tri-Cities

Lonestar West Division
Abilene
Amarillo
El Paso
Odessa

Lonestar East Division
Arkansas
Austin
Corpus Christi
San Angelo

Traditional IFL rival games and what are sure to be new geographic rivalries are highlighted throughout this 182 game season which begins on Friday, February 26th and concludes on Saturday, June 19th. Teams from Alaska to Washington DC will take to the turf for the IFL's second season of play. The league was created in 2008 as a product of the Intense Football League Merging with the United Indoor Football Association and played with 19 teams in 2009.

"We are pleased to once again be the first league in our industry to publish the upcoming schedule and anticipate a tremendous season ahead", stated commissioner Tommy Benizio, "The schedule committee and Arthur Steiker from Bortz Sports have done a wonderful job on getting this completed."